If you haven’t stopped by our new Community Forum, you’ve been missing out. Here’s what’s been going on.
Rebecca of Rebecca’s Soap Delicatessen is running a Marketing Forum where you can get tips, help others, and set up product review exchanges.
Cheryl of Liberty Originals is running an Etsy Treasuries and Artfire Collections Forum where you can both post treasuries/collections you’ve curated, as well as view the work of... → Read the rest of this article

Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She
loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.
Hello lovers of handmade,
You probably don’t know that we here at Try Handmade have an internal private forum which we use to communicate with each other. You probably also don’t know that I’ve just opened up a public section for all of you folks out there!
What does this mean for you?
Well… if you have a hankering for a new place to chit chat about handmade, head on over and suggest your topic. Get some friends to join you, and if you manage to... → Read the rest of this article

Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She
loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.
Here in the US we’re celebrating Memorial Day. Take a second to see how my favorite flour is made, and then we’ll see you back here tomorrow for more great handmade beauties.
Now I’m off to make some bread – my kids love this recipe for their lunchbox sandwiches :)
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Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She
loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.
UPDATE: If you’re reading this, then you’re on the new site. Is it faster for you? I sure hope so!
It’s been a few months since the last time I had to upgrade this site to a bigger, better, stronger, faster server, so of course that means that today’s the day!
If you see anything amiss on the site, just have patience please. File this under the category of “problems I like to have” since the move is being driven by a huge increase in traffic... → Read the rest of this article

Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She
loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.
I got 7 kinds of inspired over the weekend and made some new badges. Instead of hiring someone to make them for me, I did it myself – you know, ‘handmade’ :)
And check out the many more sizes and variations I made in my productive state of mind.
Now I realize that most of you reading this don’t have blogs, so for you this is not such a useful post, but for the few, the proud, the bloggers out there… what do you think? Would you put one of... → Read the rest of this article

Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She
loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.